Ah, the obligatory Stargate post....

[stoopbeck]

So this weekend? I spent it in bed [yeah, yeah] watching the entire first season of Stargate SG-1. Rock, is all I can say. Rarely is it that I can find a show whose first season rocks so freaking much as this one. Sarah, you have converted me. Heh.

Some simple rules so far for surviving Stargate missions: Don’t touch anything. Don’t be a kid. Don’t be Daniel. Don’t make out with anyone from offworld. Don't listen to Daniel.

Poor Daniel. Heh.



Random Thoughts on Season One Eps, followed by the episode title for those of you playing at home...

-Primate!Jack looks disturbingly like David Bowie… As long as he doesn’t start grunting Ziggy Stardust, I’ll be okay tho…[The Broca Divide]
-GAH! When a guy tells you that you’re not gonna shoot him, that you wouldn’t want to kill him? Shoot him in the leg. It worked for Julian Bashir, it’ll work for you. [The First Commandment]
-Should I feel bad for instantly thinking that the baby looked just like Hammond? Just checking… [Brief Candle]
-GAHHH! “It recreated Daniel and I…”? Ok, simple rule… It recreated… me. It recreated Daniel and me. You don’t go around saying “It recreated I,” do you? Do you? Even Microsoft Word catches that! GAH! [Cold Lazarus]
-JamesEarlJonesOMG! [Thor's Hammer]
-“He was so young, so full of passion. Like you. You reminded me of him when he first started.” Uh, Daniel? Get out now. Run while you still can. And EWWW! GOLLUM! GAH! And… wow, has he got some hairy, hairy shoulders. [The Torment of Tantalus]
-“Hey, hey, HEY—who you calling a hassock?” [Bloodlines]
-ARMINSHIMERMANOMG!OMGOMGOMG! SQUEEEE! [The Nox]
-BWA! “You, with the crown of marble!” [Hathor]
-What is that weird nod thing people do when they think you’re an enemy and then you save their life and they stare at you for forever with their mouths open and incredulous happy looks on their faces and then… nod? Seriously. I want to know. [Cor-Ali]
-Score! Non-product-placement ketchup and mustard! [Singularity]
-Narim: *whispers romantically* We have a custom that expresses more than words… *leans in* …it is called the Hokey-Pokey. You put your right arm in, you take your right arm out… And, uh, Narim? That silver jumpsuit? Elvis called, he wants it back. [Enigma]
-Uh… RoboJack? Why are you shorter than RealJack? [Tin Man]
-Man, Hammond needs Scotty. He’d have fixed the gate with a pocket knife, some phase inverters, and a donut. And he’d have fixed it in half the time. [Solitudes]
-It’s sad that even in alternate universes Hammond is bald. Guy gets no breaks. [There But For The Grace of God]
-Heh. “And you were there, and you were there, and there’s no place like home.” Heh. I love Snarky!Jack. [Politics]
-You know, with all the head injuries Daniel gets, it’s surprising he’s still able to do his job. *SNERK* “Spacemonkey!” [In The Serpant's Grasp]

Is it wrong to love a laptop computer? Because I love mine. Really I do. How else would I have been able to watch a whole season of Stargate: SG-1 from the comfort of my own bed, for crying out loud? Heh. Now they’ve even got me saying it. Goody.

I love this show. I really do. Rarely have I seen anything with such awesome acting, directing, filming, editing, and writing. There aren't any real clunkers of episodes. It makes me happy. So, yay for Sarah! Now I must go convert the unwashed masses to the one true show that is Stargate!

Comments

[armyguardbrat.livejournal.com]

you're NUTS!!!!!

[skroberts]

Without nuts, brownies would be boring. Thus, without people nuts, life would also be boring...

*g*

[armyguardbrat.livejournal.com]

there is so many ways one could take that......

[skroberts]

There is only one way my brain works:

brownie nuts = peanuts; a prostrate southern Brazilian plant (Arachis hypogaea) widely cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions, having yellow flowers on stalks that bend over so that the seed pods ripen underground.

people nuts = crazy or eccentric persons; yours truly and Alex

*g*

*snerk*

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

You people crack me up. Heh.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

eeee! Stargate! Ok, I got linked straight to this entry from skroberts, so it's not like I didn't know the post was going to be about Stargate, but I'm excited anyway.

OK, guest stars are just so freakish. I mean, I had the same reaction to James Earl Jones--ROCK!! But oh my god, I didn't even recognize Armin Shimerman! Now I need to watch Season 1 again. That's so awesome and destroys me so much at the same time. XD It scares me when fandoms meet. And then you think you recognize people, and you go to imdb and look at guest stars and it breaks your brain. Like, Kirby Morrow was in Cor-ai. Which no one cares about except for me. But! Kirby Morrow was also the Voice (it gets capitalized cos it's so sexy--not quite Alan Rickman levels, but close) of Cyclops in an animated X-Men series, in which Magneto was played by Christopher Judge!!! So, so messed up. See? This is why guest stars mess with my head. For another example of freakdom (this time mostly on my part), Musetta Vander, who plays Shan'auc, Jaffa priestess who shares history with Teal'c in the season 4 episode "Crossroads", was Natalie French, preying mantis teacher in Buffy season 1 episode "Teacher's Pet". Oh, and I recognized her. But couldn't figure out where she was from, and then discovered it was Buffy--DVDs of which I'd been watching heavily at the same time as I got my Season 4 DVD.

by the way, I'm Laura! Hi! ::waves:: Such a huge Stargate fan. It's so much fun, and so very much the perfect show for me--exciting action, awesome, sexy characters, comedy, good stories, and very few multi-episode storylines! :D So happy that there's another convert!

[skroberts]

Yeah, fan geeks unite!

[guingel.livejournal.com]

Truly, I do not know enough Stargate fans. And the other day when I was watching it, this cute girl that I've been crushing on as she gives me her dishes at work (remember, I work washing dishes) came into the room--apparently she was visiting someone in my house--and said that she didn't like Stargate SG-1!! I was stricken. But I still have a crush on her, anyway. >.> I will just have to convert her. I told her that it's fun, even when it's silly (the episode was emancipation. . . a lot of the ones where they find ancient cultures tend to be on the "difficult to explain to non-fans" side. . .) because it doesn't take itself too seriously! Which rocks!

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

The silly ones are the best. Seriously. I think the reason why so few people watch it is that it is different from most other sci-fi shows. If you come in on it late in the game, you're completely lost and you feel bad for making the people you're watching it with explain everything. When I watched one with Sarah for the first time I was so lost it was funny. "Wait, what? Are those... Egyptians? Why's he talking funny? Wait--WHAT?" and so on. More people need to be forced to watch the first episodes. Then they'll get it.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

that's true. I will slowly convert my roommate. I kind of almost made her watch "The Other Guys," which is a hilarious season 6 episode (I actually came in during season 6, but I'd done research beforehand) but she came down late and by the time she did lots of other people were in the TV room being loud. Still. I will be patient. She is on the path to Buffy fandom. . .

It's sad, though. When I'm watching it, people just come in and make fun of it. Which is what I do, but they do it in a not-nice way. I'm like "Christ, people! It is supposed to be silly!!!" ::sniffles::

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

Gah. I hate when people do that. It makes me sad...

Heh. Heheheh.

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

No, you know what's really sad? I was watching the first one with Teal'c's family, and his wife is JAKE SISKO FROM DS9'S GIRLFRIEND! WOO! I love this. This show was made for people like us.

Re: Heh. Heheheh.

[guingel.livejournal.com]

XD Sadly, Teal'c's wife is played by a different actress in every appearance she makes, and varies in coolness.

Also! Stargate does freaky guest star things within the show! Because Cassandra? From "Singularity"? ::sniffle:: Such a beautiful episode. Anyway. She shows up again in Season 5, where she is played by Colleen Rennison, who was much cooler in her less important role as Ally in Season 2's "Bane". I just discovered all this. Because I knew older!Cassandra looked familiar, and then was just. . . freaked again.

Made for people like us indeed. XD

Eventually, I will be able to dominate at the Kevin Bacon game.

Re: Heh. Heheheh.

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

WOO! This makes me happy. I love converging fandoms... And I wish they wouldn't change actors or actresses in different episodes! GAH!

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

I've got to get working on my roommate to watch the show. She's my best friend so I should just beg and she'd do it... right? Right? lol Thought she did say she'd watch all of Stargate if I watched everything she had on Hanson. Oh the things we do for fandom.

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

...

Wow, the sacrifices you're willing to make... I don't think I could watch more than... say... five seconds of Hanson. But that's just me. But hey! If it works, then you'll have another person that you can share the joy of Stargate with!

[ewanspotter.livejournal.com]

I will say there are worse things than Hanson. At least they're cute now, and the music is not "Mmm Bop" and rather decent actually. But while she has a few tapes, a DVD, and some taped TV interviews, I think my severn seasons of Stargate on DVD will overshadow anything she has. But, she said she'd "watch them all." So... muhahah.

She's seen Stargate and has a background of liking out of the norm television programs (Buffy, Angel, Roswell, etc) so I really hope she enjoys watching them all. At least to finally see what I babble on about. Though, I might not let her watch "Emancipation" seeing as I really can't stand the episode. ;D

[stoopbeck.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you definitely have the better part of this bargain... and at least she's heading in the right direction!